About this object

Fragment of bone furniture inlay with a leaf pattern motif. Either found within a large ash-heap at Shurafa; or a grave at Scenas Mandras, a Ptolemaic Period cemetery three miles to the north of Shurafa (see Petrie and Mackay 1915 pp. 40-45).

W.M.Flinders Petrie, Ernest Mackay. Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa, (London, 1915, British School of Archaeology in Egypt); Pl. XLIX; The Gilstrap collection was formed by Miss Gilstrap, who contributed funds to the British School of Archaeology in Egypt between 1900 and 1910. She was given a share of the excavated finds in return for the funding she provided.

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